ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 897

not exceeding six additional constables for Montgomery
County at large on the first Tuesday of July in the year
1922 for a term of two years from the date of the appoint-
ment, and to provide rules and regulations governing the
duties of said constables and provide for their compensa-
tion and the expenses of equipment, said constables to be
known and be designated as "Montgomery County Police. "
So as to provide for an increase in the number and com-
pensation of the members of said force, to relieve them from
the necessity of giving bond and to provide for an estab-
lishment of certain stations, ' " so as to provide for an in-
crease in compensation for the privates of the Montgomery
County Police Force and to repeal and re-enact with amend-
ments Section 11 of said Act.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 3 of Chapter 299 of the Acts of the
General Assembly of Maryland, session of 1927, entitled "An
Act to repeal and re-enact with amendments Chapter 259 of
the Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland, session of
1922, entitled 'An. Act to authorize, empower and direct the
County Commissioners of Montgomery County to appoint
three or more, not exceeding six additional, constables for
Montgomery County at large on the first Tuesday of July
in the year 1922 for a term of two years from the date of the
appointment, and to provide rules and regulations governing
the duties of said constables and provide for their compensa-
tion and the expenses of equipment, said constables to be
known and designated as "Montgomery County Police. " So
as to provide for an increase in the number and compensation
of the members of said force, to relieve them from the neces-
sity of giving bond and to provide for the establishment of
certain stations, ' " be and the same is hereby repealed and!
re-enacted to read as follows:

3. That the County Commissioners of Montgomery Coun-
ty shall designate three of the said police officers so appointed
as sergeants of the Montgomery County Police at a salary not
to exceed the sum of twenty-one hundred ($2, 100. 00) dollars
per annum, payable monthly, and shall designate three of said
police officers so appointed as patrolmen "First Class" of the
Montgomery County Police at a salary not to exceed the sum
of eighteen hundred ($1, 800. 00) dollars per annum, payable
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